Oh yeah, and Rubio will win the Republican nomination.
Wait, who/what are you quoting here?
By 2016 we may be able to purge the Tea Party from the GOP much like the Russian Communists kicked out the Trotskyists. 
If this means they start airbrushing Michele Bachmann out of photos, I’m for it.
If Romney beats Obama and Warren beats Brown, then I see this as a real possibility. If she uses the 2 years in the Senate to make a name for herself, by fighting Romney’s inevitable bank love, then I think she could potentially win it. If she does what Obama did and Franken is doing: keep her head down and try not to be controversial, then she may be as hopeless as Obama has been, so who cares. I like Warren a lot and have yet to be disappointed by her, but since the Obama deflation, I tend to find hope springs a leak.
Rubio is an inevitable VP candidate. If the GOP loses in 12, I suspect Perry may give it another go. If he’s not a complete idiot, he can bone up in 4 years. Pawlenty and Huntsman are obviously setting their calendars, as well. (Can you set calendars? On computers you can, okay.)
If Obama wins reelection, I suspect Clinton, Cuomo, or another establishment figure will drizzle into the nomination. Schwitzer’s a mixed bag, but we’ve nominated worse.